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End-user Odoo documentation
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Building requirements:
Build the documentation
=======================
* Python 2.7
* recent `Sphinx <http://sphinx-doc.org>`_ (at least Sphinx 1.2)
Requirements
------------
you can check if Sphinx is installed by trying to launch
- :ref:`Git <contributing/install-git>`
.. code-block:: console
- | :ref:`Python 3 <contributing/python>`
| If you don't know which subversion to choose, pick the last one.
| Python dependencies are listed in the file :file:`requirements.txt` located in the root
directory.
$ sphinx-build --version
- Sphinx 2.4.0 or above.
- Werkzeug 0.14.1
See `the sphinx documentation <http://sphinx-doc.org/install.html>`_
for local installation instructions.
* `git <http://www.git-scm.com>`_
* clone this repository using git, then at the root of the repository,
in a console,
- :ref:`Make <contributing/make>`
.. code-block:: console
Instructions
------------
$ make html
In a terminal, navigate to the root directory and execute the following command:
this should compile the documentation to HTML, and put the generated
HTML in ``_build/html/index.html``.
.. code-block:: console
Contributions
=============
$ make html
For simple edition (typo, just add paragraphs of text without markup),
the Github web interface can be used directly.
This compiles the documentation to HTML.
For more complex edition, to add images or advanced directives, edit
locally. **Do not commit if there are warnings or errors when building
the documentation** fix them first. rST is fairly sensitive to
whitespace and newlines (especially the lack of newlines). It's a bit
annoying but it's not hard to learn.
Open :file:`_build/html/index.html` in your web browser to display the render.
Issues can be reported on the repository's bug tracker as usual.
See :ref:`contributing/prepare-version` for more detailed instructions.
Custom features
===============
Contribute to the documentation
===============================
Extensions
----------
For contributions to the content of the documentation, please refer to
:doc:`contributing/documentation/introduction_guide`.
Two custom directives are provided for integration with Odoo's demo
system:
* ``demo:fields:: {external_id}`` lists all the fields with a
tooltip (``help``) of the action whose ``external_id`` is provided.
- Uses the ``form`` view by default, can be customized by specifying
``:view:``.
- The list of fields displayed can be filtered with ``:only:`` which
should be a list of space-separated fields to display. Note that
this will further reduce the number of fields displayed, it will
not force fields to be listed when they don't have a ``help``.
.. code-block:: restructuredtext
.. demo:fields:: account_asset.action_account_asset_asset_list_normal_sale
:only: name
will display a table of just the ``name`` field and its ``help`` (or
nothing if the ``name`` field does not have a ``help``)
* ``demo:action:: {external_id}`` will create a link button to the
action (specified by external id) on the demo site. The text of the
button should be provided as the directive's content:
.. code-block:: restructuredtext
.. demo:action:: account_asset.action_account_asset_asset_list_normal_sale
View *Asset Types*
Theme Customisations
--------------------
* The Odoo theme supports *Banner Images* at the top of
documents. These banners are configured by setting a ``:banner:``
field at the top of the document (before the page title), the banner
images will be looked up in the ``_static`` folder at the root of
the project
.. code-block:: restructuredtext
:banner: banners/accounting.png
==========
Accounting
==========
[...]
.. warning::
because banners are wide images and each page may have one, it is
strongly recommended to compress them well. For PNG, use
`pngquant <https://pngquant.org>`_ (or a UI to it) to reduce the
number of colors in the image followed by regular PNG
recompression tools like `pngcrush
<http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/>`_ and `pngout
<http://www.advsys.net/ken/util/pngout.htm>`_.
Importing existing documents
============================
For documents which already exist in an other format or in Google
docs, it's possible to get a head-start by converting the existing
document using `Pandoc <http://pandoc.org>`_. The main issue is that
anything but trivial original documents will need fixing up (possibly
lots of it) to get *good* rST (or possibly working rST at all).
Example::
pandoc -f docx -t rst path/to/document.docx -o new_doc.rst --extract-media=.
will convert ``path/to/document.docx`` to ``new_doc.rst`` and export
all images to ``./media`` (and link them from the document). While
there are issues with the exported document, it's much more convenient
than manually re-typing the original.
To **report a content issue**, **request new content** or **ask a question**, use the `repository's
issue tracker <https://github.com/odoo/documentation-user/issues>`_ as usual.

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Formatting tips
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.. _contributing/banners:
Add banners on top of documents
-------------------------------
.. raw:: html
<span class="badge" style="background-color:#AD5E99">Odoo feature</span>
The Odoo theme supports banner images at the top of documents. At the first line of your documents,
insert the directive ``:banner: banners/file_name.png``. Replace ``file_name.png`` with the file
that you placed in :file:`_static/banners` to server as a banner of your document.
.. _contributing/line-break:
Break the line but not the paragraph